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The New Indian Express Chennai
Chennai Open chess meet: Easy for seeds in Rd 1
THE opening round of the 16th Chennai Open International Grandmasters Chess tournament was smooth sailing for all the tops seeds as they accounted for their respective opponents without any difficulty.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Assam tribal body rejects govt bid to make ST list additions
THE Coordination Committee of Tribal Organisations of Assam (CCTOA) has rejected the recommendation of the Group of Ministers (GoM) to grant the ST status to six communities, namely the Tai Ahom, Chutia, Moran, Matak, Koch-Rajbongshi and the Tea tribes.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
CM will give a better pension plan today, say staff unions
Coordinators say proposal must have retrospective effect from 2003
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Trump warns of intervention if more protesters killed; keep off, says Iran
To Don's US is ‘locked and loaded’ threat, Tehran says any such step will destabilise region
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
500 sanitary staff protest near GCC commissioner’s residence, detained
OVER 500 temporary sanitation workers, including 450 women, were detained for staging protests in front of Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner J Kumaragurubaran's residence at Kilpauk on Friday.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
2-time MLA & senior AIADMK leader joins TVK
J C D Prabhakar, a two-time MLA and a senior leader associated with the AIADMK since the MG Ramachandran era, joined actor Vijay-led Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) on Friday.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Heavy rain pounds south, west TN; landslips halt Nilgiris train service
Bathing banned in Courtallam after flash floods, traffic halted between Sivagiri & Vasudevanallur
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
BJP, VHP not controlled by RSS: Bhagwat
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said on Friday that organisations like the BJP, VHP or the Vidya Bharti work independently and not controlled by the Sangh.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Court asks DGCA if crew duty relaxation given to IndiGo will be extended
THE Madras HC has sought to know from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) whether the exemption granted to IndiGo Airlines from certain flight crew duty and fatigue management norms under the Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) will be extended beyond the stipulated period, in the wake of large-scale flight cancellations and delays.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Abishan-Anaswara film to release in February
EARLIER, we announced that Tourist Family director Abishan Jeevinth is teaming up with Anaswara Rajan for a film titled With Love.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Poultry farmers’ strike may put broiler chicken prices on the boil soon
AS poultry farmers rearing chickens on contractual basis for broiler companies are on strike since Thursday over \"low chicken-rearing rates\" offered by these firms, the production halt is likely to hit the consumers hard as the price of broilers in Tamil Nadu is expected to rise soon.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
VAO dies by ‘suicide’; male friend says parents poisoned her over caste issue
THE Thirupalaivanam police are investigating the death of a 27-year-old Mangodu and Keerapakkam VAO who allegedly died by suicide at her residence in Avadi on Monday night.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Defining feature of TN’s ’25 investment cycle is geographic spread, says Rajaa
Minister says state got ₹2.07L crore investments, created over 4L employment opportunities
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Greece cuts student population at universities by half
MORE than 300,000 inactive university students have been removed from the rolls in Greece, cutting the country’s official student population by nearly half, authorities said Friday.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
State 'brutally repressing' protesting teachers: PMK
PMK leader Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday condemned the police action against protesting secondary grade teachers.
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January 03, 2026
The New Indian Express
UP comparison flawed, TN's fiscal situation is stable, says ex-fin min
SENIOR Congress leader and former union finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said that assessing a state's economic health solely on the basis of its total debt was misleading and analytically flawed.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
Centre to provide TN with 500 MW power to meet peak summer demand
TAMIL NADU is set to receive an additional 500 MW of electricity from the union government from January to May to help the state meet its power demand.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
INSTAGRAM CEO CALLS FOR CLEAR LABELS AS AI CONTENT GROWS
ARTIFICIAL intelligence has improved rapidly in recent months, making it easy for anyone to create realistic images and videos using simple text prompts.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
Clubs seek more clarity from AIFF before ISL restart
AT least 13 Indian Super League clubs have sought written clarity and confirmation over quite a few points after the All India Football Federation had given them until January 1 to confirm their participation.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
No commercial bank will fail capital requirement tests: RBI
THE Reserve Bank has said none of the commercial banks will fail minimum capital requirements tests, including the severe macro stress test.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
67-yr-old playing cards jumps into canal to evade cops, drowns
FIRE and rescue services personnel on Thursday recovered the body of an elderly man who jumped into a canal while fleeing police near Chidambaram.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
Aavin to triple buffalo milk procurement
AAVIN has set an ambitious target of tripling its daily procurement of buffalo milk from the current 10,000 litres to 30,000 litres by the end of 2026, as a dedicated scheme to revive buffalo rearing in Tamil Nadu begins to yield results.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
Govt to probe Lalu land details if complaint made, says Bihar deputy CM
BIHAR Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha on Thursday did not rule out an inquiry into Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad’s alleged illegal land property, saying action would follow if a formal complaint is filed.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
New Year eve marks tourism revival in Kashmir
THE New Year arrived on a hopeful note for Kashmir tourism as tourist resorts in Gulmarg, Sonamarg, and Pahalgam, along with the historic Ghanta Ghar in Lal Chowk, witnessed grand celebrations, signalling a revival of the sector after last year’s setback.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
MCA relaxes KYC norms for directors
NEW GUIDELINES - THE Corporate Affairs Ministry has eased compliance requirements for company directors by replacing the mandatory annual KYC filing with an abridged requirement of once every three years under the Companies Act, 2013.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express
AT LEAST 47 DEAD IN SWISS BAR FIRE
AT least 47 people were killed and 115 others seriously injured after a massive fire ripped through a crowded bar in the upscale Swiss ski resort town of Crans-Montana during a New Year's party, reports said on Thursday.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
UNSPARRING MIRRORS OF QUOTIDIAN LIVES
CINEMA is a medium made for spectacular, extraordinary and even grotesque narratives.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
CM announces ₹183 crore Pongal bonus
CHIEF Minister M K Stalin on Thursday announced ₹183.86 crore as ad hoc bonus to the C and D group employees, teachers, pensioners, family pensioners, and retired village officers and village assistants for celebrating the Pongal festival for the 2024-25 fiscal.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Furnishing grounds of arrest is mandatory: HC
THE Madras High Court has held that furnishing the grounds of arrest to the person who is being arrested is mandatory and it is a constitutional right of that person.
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January 02, 2026
The New Indian Express Chennai
Orphaned at 4, judoka from naxalite-infested region shines
IFE was anyway not easy for the Mandavi household but destiny wreaked havoc as Mayaram and Sukhmati passed away within months of each other rendering their three children orphans in 2015.
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